German at Aston is proud to be hosting the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Women in German Studies subject association.
We have an exciting line-up of papers from all areas of German studies:
Friday 9 November
14:00-14:30 Registration
14:30-17:00 Postgraduate and ECR Workshop (Cadbury Room)
Post-PhD opportunities: getting published, applying for funding and more!
Alex Lloyd (Oxford): Academic Publishing: My Part in its Downfall
Elisabeth Wielander (Aston): The Reluctant Academic
Ellen Pilsworth (Reading): All You Need is Love [and good Time Management and a Self-Care Practice]
Lyn Marven (Liverpool): Open Access Publishing and Modern Languages Online (MLO)
Mary Boyle (Maynooth): Applying for the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:45 Welcome
18:00 Prize-giving: Postgraduate Essay Prize & First Book Proposal Prize
20:00 Conference Dinner at The Lost & Found, Bennetts Hill
Saturday 10 November
9.30-10.30 Parallel Panels (1/2)
Panel 1 – Early Modern (10th Floor, NX02)
Mary Boyle (Maynooth): Women’s Reception of the Nibelungenlied at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century
Alexandra Lloyd (Oxford): “Lieblingsrose historischer Gärtner!”: Joan of Arc in the German Literary Imagination
Panel 2 – Illness and Social Norms (Cadbury Room)
Nina Schmidt (FU Berlin): Beyond the Personal: The Social Critique of German Graphic Medicine
Katherine Stone (Warwick): #RegrettingMotherhood in Germany: Between Societal Taboo and Feminist Protest
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Panel 3
Panel 3 – Literature and Politics (Cadbury Room)
Sarah Colvin (Jesus College, Cambridge): Can the incarcerated subaltern speak – and who’s listening? The problem of prisoner knowledge
Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster): Marlene Streeruwitz: Punctuation, Politics, and Theatricality
12:00-13:00 – Keynote Lecture (Cadbury Room)
Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham): Changing times – changing my mind?: feminism, ecocriticism, identity politics
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Cadbury Room)
14:00-15:00 AGM
15:00-16:30 Parallel Panels (4/5)
Panel 4 – Identity and Otherness (Cadbury Room)
Maren Rohe (Birmingham): Perceptions of Germany in Poland – evidence from narrative interviews with Warsaw university students
Heike Krüsemann (Reading): Language learning motivation and the discursive representation of German in UK school settings and the press
Hilary Potter (Leeds): Otherness? On the intersections of identity
Panel 5 – Genre (10th Floor, NX02)
Stephanie Homer (IMLR, London): The resilience of the Kindertransport refugee
Mary Ikoniadou (Manchester Metropolitan): Brechtian dialectics on the design layout of an illustrated magazine in the GDR
Abbey Rees-Hales (Birmingham): “With quite unrestrained female indiscretion”: Charlotte Berend, Anita Berber and the graphically-graphic body
To register as delegate for the conference, please go to the Aston University Online Store
